The NFL strenuously objects to the loss it took in court docket in the present day. As anticipated.
Following the entry of a $4.096 billion verdict in a nationwide antitrust class motion difficult the pricing mannequin of the Sunday Ticket bundle (which by legislation will likely be trebled, if it stands), the league has issued a press release vowing to proceed the battle.
“We’re disillusioned with the jury’s verdict in the present day within the NFL Sunday Ticket class motion lawsuit,” the league stated in a press release issued to PFT and different shops. “We proceed to imagine that our media distribution technique, which options all NFL video games broadcast on free over-the-air tv within the markets of the taking part groups and nationwide distribution of our hottest video games, supplemented by many further decisions together with RedZone, Sunday Ticket and NFL+, is by far essentially the most fan pleasant distribution mannequin in all of sports activities and leisure. We will definitely contest this resolution as we imagine that the category motion claims on this case are baseless and with out advantage. We thank the jury for his or her time and repair and for the steerage and oversight from Decide Gutierrez all through the trial.”
In fact the NFL believes the claims are baseless and with out advantage. They’ve believed all of it alongside. They gained’t let one thing like, you recognize, a jury verdict change their tune — not with a number of avenues for attraction accessible.
The quantity is simply too huge for the NFL to not contest it, as aggressively as they will. The NFL will take all of it the best way to the U.S. Supreme Court docket, the place one of many 9 justices has a Tremendous Bowl ring that was given to him by Jerry Jones within the ‘90s. (It stays to be seen whether or not one of many different Supreme Court docket justices will likely be flying an NFL flag upside within the aftermath of in the present day’s verdict.)
The plaintiffs will even push it that far, too, if the NFL wins at some later step within the appellate course of. With a fish that huge on the road, the attorneys representing the category have each motive to maintain making an attempt to get it into the boat.
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